Nelson Piquet Jr.'s lead was so big that even low on fuel he could cruise carefully to the finish line for a long-awaited victory in the NASCAR Trucks Series. "I was going half-throttle already. They told me to back off more. That's why I was worried. I didn't know who the second place was," Piquet said. "I was getting a bit scared of putting down second gear and just coasting." The second-place driver was too far back Saturday. Piquet ended up winning by 8.082 seconds after leading by almost twice that margin with a couple laps to go. Jason White finished second, and Dakoda Armstrong was third. Chris Carrier, the winning crew chief, said Piquet ran out of gas during the burnout. "I knew from past experience in other races that Nelson is very good, naturally, at saving fuel when he needs to. He's got very good throttle control, very good car control. He knows how to draft," Carrier said. "We were just trying to figure out how to tell him how far ahead he was. The guy that was running second, Jason White, was doing the same thing we were. He was hoping he didn't run out of fuel too. He kind of forced our hand to stay out, because had we pitted, he would have won the race." Read more: http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/tr...rst-career-nascar-trucks-win-michigan-victory
